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Re: [LUG] Server lockups

 

Can you attach a monitor and keyboard to it?

On 6/2/07, Simon Williams <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> 2 days ago my server locked up. After a hard reboot it came back up
> fine. Then last night it did the same thing again, but this time it took
> several tries before it would boot properly.
>
> The question is- what is causing this?
>
> I have no idea where to start. There isn't usually a monitor or keyboard
> attached either, which makes things more interesting.
>
> Nothing appears in the logs which might give me any ideas.
>
> I'm suspicious of a hardware fault, but I can't narrow that down either.
>
> This is really the wrong time for me to be messing with this- I have
> exams this week.
>
> Anyone got any ideas how I might go about tracing this one?
>
> It runs Arch Linux, with a kernel I compiled myself.
>
> Thanks
> Simon
>
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